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Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Posted Jan 24, 2009 12:43 UTC (Sat) by Los__D (guest, #15263)
In reply to: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online) by martinfick
Parent article: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

When the spares runs out, the drive should be replaced immediately, if you care about your data.

No OS bad block remapping scheme will change that.


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Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Posted Jan 24, 2009 13:36 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yes: but you can see bad blocks appear before any spares have been used at
all, if you only saw them on read, rather than after a rewrite.

Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Posted Jan 24, 2009 13:51 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

but in that case the correct action isn't to mark the sector as bad, but to try to write to it (so that the sector will be remapped)

however, if the drive really is going bad, doing so could further damage your data

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